One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out. Ernie Pyle More Quotes by Ernie Pyle More Quotes From Ernie Pyle Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. Ernie Pyle curves dark night I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy. Ernie Pyle sick struggle thinking It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire. Ernie Pyle literature fire night All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. Ernie Pyle lines soldier war If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war. Ernie Pyle might war thinking The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery. Ernie Pyle light soldier feet Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece. Ernie Pyle shadow bridges dark Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now. Ernie Pyle literature matter firsts [I]nstead of the usual "Why can't we make movies more like real life?" I think a more pertinent question is "Why can't real life be more like the movies?" Ernie Pyle pertinent-questions real thinking Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had. Ernie Pyle artillery military The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion. Ernie Pyle walk looking you men If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone. Ernie Pyle alone will you long At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life. Ernie Pyle your last everything life
